Via Don’t Trust the Rankings That Put China’s Universities on Top published by The New York Times on February 11, 2026

The gap between the rankings and reality can be explained by Goodhart’s law, which says that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. It’s like trying to cure a fever by icing the thermometer: You’ve cooled the instrument, but the patient is still burning up.
~ Ariel Procaccia

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